Mastering the Master Space
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Supersymmetric gauge theories have an important but perhaps under-appreciated notion of a master space, which controls the full moduli space. For world-volume theories of D-branes probing a Calabi-Yau singularity X the situation is particularly illustrative. In the case of one physical brane, the master space F is the space of F-terms and a particular quotient thereof is X itself. We study various properties of F which encode such physical quantities as Higgsing, BPS spectra, hidden global symmetries, etc. Using the plethystic program we also discuss what happens at higher number N of branes. This letter is a summary and some extensions of the key points of a longer companion paper arXiv:0801.1585.
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@article{arxiv.0801.3477,
title = {Mastering the Master Space},
author = {Davide Forcella and Amihay Hanany and Yang-Hui He and Alberto Zaffaroni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3477},
year = {2008}
}
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10 pages, 1 Figure